"Moneyball" showcases the use of statistics in baseball to identify undervalued players and build a competitive team on a limited budget. It differs from traditional portrayals by focusing on data-driven decision-making and challenging conventional wisdom in player evaluation and recruitment.
The cultural challenges facing the adoption of predictive AI include a lack of understanding of probability-based decision making, a preference for deterministic outcomes, and a tendency to overlook the importance of predictive AI in favor of generative AI. These challenges contribute to a resistance to embracing probabilistic thinking in business decision making.
Predictive AI is currently less popular than generative AI due to a few reasons. First, the recent success of generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, has captured the public's imagination with their ability to create human-like content3. Second, predictive AI deals with probabilities, which may not be as appealing or straightforward as the tangible content generated by generative AI. Lastly, there is a cultural aversion to probabilities, as they are often seen as complex or uninteresting compared to the creative and innovative nature of generative AI.